Ukraine rushed fresh troops and supplies Saturday to the devastated remains of a key airport near the Russian border as explosions and heavy rebel gunfire shook the area and hopes for peace talks continued to fade. Troops described the shelling by pro-Russian separatists at Donetsk airport as some of the worst of the nine-month rebellion, with...

KIEV: Fighting in eastern Ukraine has killed three soldiers, officials said on Saturday, as an upsurge in clashes in recent days between the army and pro-Russian rebels centred around control of a battered airport. Further battles shook the area around the Donetsk airport on Saturday, with Ukraine’s military saying it was defending its...

THE HAGUE: The International Criminal Court launched a preliminary probe Friday that could clear the way for a full-scale investigation into possible war crimes in Palestinian territories – plunging the court into the most politically charged conflict it has ever tackled. ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said her office would conduct an...

The heavy fighting is in spite of a 12-point peace blueprint mapped out in Minsk in early September which called for a ceasefire in the nine-month conflict in which more than 4,800 people have been killed …read more Source: World...

By Perry Diaz After the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1991, there was only one superpower left in a unipolar world order: The United States of America. For the next two decades, America was the world’s hegemon. It kept peace in an ever-increasing turbulent world. Thus began the era of Pax Americana (American...